US troops killed five Mahdi Army fighters in Baghdad. Iraqi troops arrested 11 “criminals” in Basrah. Iraqi security forces captured a communications specialist who conducted “remote distance communications transmitting and receiving from outside Iraq™s borders with neighboring countries.” Coalition forces detained 16 al Qaeda operatives during operations in Samarra, Balad, and Baghdad. The Tal Afar SWAT captured four al Qaeda fighters. A female suicide bomber killed one Iraqi soldier and wounded seven in an attack south of Baghdad.
